Maude Fealy..silent film Star and renowned beauty . She transited to talkies and was in or an extra in every film of Cecile B Demille. He also had a provision in his will that for her entombed in Hollywood Forever Cemetary where he was also buried. More

Actor and playwright Sam Shepard has died at the age of 73, according to US media. He won the Pulitzer Prize for drama for Buried Child in 1979. He went on to be nominated for the best supporting actor Oscar for 1983 film The Right Stuff and starred in films like Black Hawk Down. More recently he was seen in Netflix thriller Bloodline. bbc.in/SamShepard #rip #samshepard #bbcnews

Sam Shepard, obituary: The Pulitzer Prize-winning writer who was also an Oscar nominated film star

Sam Shepard, who has died of Lou Gehrig’s disease aged 73, was an experimentalist cowboy-style poet who became one of the most significant American playwrights of the 20th century – honoured with the 1979 Pulitzer Prize for drama for his play Buried Child and with an Oscar nomination for his acting role as aviator Chuck Yeager in the 1983 film The Right Stuff.